Max Match Play feedback / requests
It’s pretty convenient that the Matches page differentiates between “Newer Matches” and “Older Matches”. If the Big Screen View also separated the newer matches it would make it easier for players watching the screen to find their next pairing.
Is there a known issue with the big screen view standings auto-scroll? In our tournament it was scrolling down to the bottom of the standings, but never scrolled back up to the top. I haven’t been able to reproduce it on my own laptop. I’ll try to do some debugging next time I’m at the location. My guess is it could be an issue that happens when sending the tab to a Chromecast.
We ran into a situation where one player was 2 to 4 games behind players who were in the waiting list. We didn’t realize it at the time and continued starting new matches. Eventually we realized they were very far behind and from that point forward only started new matches when they were in the waiting list to ensure they didn’t run out of available opponents. As a result the tournament dragged on at the end.
Suggestion: It’d be helpful to know whether someone playing a game is far behind before deciding to create new games. For the waiting list you already display “5 of 12 games played” for each player. I’d suggest adding a new section underneath “Players waiting” called “Players playing”. It would include all of the players from active matches, sorted by their number of games played. That would give TDs extra information they could use before deciding to create more games.
For example, in that mockup it shows that Alice is way behind the players waiting in the queue. Having that info, the TD might check, see that Alice’s game is getting close to wrapping up and hold off on creating new games until the end of her match.
I’d love to hear other suggestions if someone else has a smarter way to handle this with the current Match Play Events features or has a better idea on how to enhance the site to help with this situation.